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WINFIELI) H. YOST, 0F MONTREAL, QUEBEQCAN ADA, ASSIGNOR TO RODGER BALLAST CAR COMPANY, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, A CORPORATION OF MAINE.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May S, 1917.

Original application filed July 6, 1908, Serial No. 442,106. Divided and this application filed May 7, 1913.

Serial No. 766,173.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, IVI FIELD H. Yos'r, a citizen of the United States, residing at Montreal, in the county of Hochelaga, Province of Quebec, Dominion of Canada, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Cars, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in cars. The object of my invention is to provide a new and improved car which is capable for use as a dump car or as a'flat bottom car, as desired. This application is a division of application, Serial No. 142,106, filed July 6, 1908. In the said application I have shown and described an improved combination car, of the class described. It is the object of this invention to provide new and. improved means for converting the car from a hopper bottom type to the fiat bottom type, capable of use with a plow for readily removing the contents thereof. I

In connection with this construction I provide an improved form of corner stake adapted to guide a plow and comprising means for protecting and reenforcing .the car stake, as will be apparent. I have also shown and described a form of movable end wall adapted to be placed in one position when the car is used as a hopper bottom car and in another position when used as an ordinary fiat bottom car. These and other objects will be set forth and made apparent in the following specification and accompanying drawings, in which;

Figure 1 is an end view of my car, partially in section;

Fig. 2 is a side view of the end of the same;

Fig. 3 is a plan view, partially in section of the same;

Fig. t is a longitudinal vertical section of the same;

Fig. 5 is a section on line 55 of Fig. 2 showing the corner stake in elevation.

Fig. 6 is a detail partially in section, showing the upper end of the corner stake and the top rail of the car.

Like numerals refer tolike elements throughout the drawings, in which 15 designates a movable end wall formed with the vertical uprights 15*, rigidly secured to the cross planks 15*. This movable end wall 15 is adapted to be secured, either in the position shown in Fig. 3 or in that shown in Fig. 1. In either of these positions it is secured in place by bolts 15, each extending through an upright 15 and through the top rail 16, as shown in Fig. 1 of the drawings, this top rail 16 being carried in one channel of a horizontally disposed I beam 16.

Numeral 17 indicates side-walls, these sidewalls being carried by straps 17 hingedly depending from the U bolts 17 carried by the top rail 16.

Numeral 18 indicates the stationary end portions of the car floor, as shown in Fig. 3, while located between these-fixed portions 18 are the floor portions 20 hinged along one edge, at 19, so that they may be raised and inclined against the sides of the car when the latter is used as a dump car or allowed to lie flat to form a continuation of the fixed portions 18 of the floor when the car is used as an ordinary flat car; 38 designates the end sill of the carfcarrying on its central portion the cross beam 38 reinforced by the angle plate 38 at its outer, lower edge, (see Fig. 1). l2 designates the side sills between which, at the ends thereof, extends the end sill 38. Extending upwardly from the car floor, adjacent the intersection of the end sill and the side sills, are the corner stakes, each comprising a channel 56, to which is rigidly secured, by rivets or similar fastening means, a reinforcing and guiding member 57 having a face or portion 57 secured to the web of the channel 56. A gusset plate 5-1 is interposed between the portion 57 of member 57 and the web of the channel 56 adjacentthe lower portion thereof. This gusset projects inwardly from the corner stake and has'an angularly disposed flange 5% bolted or riveted to the buffer plate 50. The guiding member 57 is provided with the outwardly curved portion 58 adjacent the end .of the car extending upwardly from the 57 and is also partially bentaround one edge of channel 56, as shown in Fig. 3.

Member 57 below the plane of the buffer plate 50 is secured to the side sill 42 by plates or rivets and a corner angle 51 is located with one face contacting with and secured to the end sill 38 and the other face contacting with and secured to the member 57, as shown in Fig. 3.

It will be apparent by this construction that upon desiring to use the car as a flat bottom car adapted to be emptied by means of a plowor scraper, the end wall 15 may be removed and the plow dragged, in the usual manner, over the floor of the car. The curved portion 58 --Of the-member 57 will serve to guide and direct the plow in traveling from one car to the other and wear of this member and channel 56 will be revented by means of the wearing or rein orc-' ing plate 62, which being also curved, will assist in guiding the plow. The hinged side walls will permit the material to be forced out the sides, as will be apparent. Straps 17 are outwardly turned at 17 at their lower extremities and are adapted to be locked by the offset portions 18 of shaft 18, journaled in plates 19, as shown in Fig. 2, and cams 20 carried by the side walls 17 serve to maintain the shaft 18 in position, locking the side walls 17 against movement, as will be apparent.

Vhile I have shown and described my invention with more or less particularity, I do not wish to be unduly restricted to such showing and description beyond the scope of the appended claims.

What I claim, is;

1. In a car, side walls, end walls, said side walls being provided with corner members flaring outwardly at the ends of said side walls.

2. In a car, a corner stake, said stake comprising a channel beam, and a curved guide and reinforcing member carried by said beam.

3. In a car, a corner stake, said stake comprising a channel beam, a curved guide and reinforcing member carried by said beam, and a second curvedniember secured to said reinforcing member. r

4. In a car, a corner stake, said stake com- I prising a channel beam, a curved guide and reinforcing member carried by said beam, and a. second curved member secured to said reinforcing member adjacent the floor of said car.

5.- In a car, a corner stake, said stake comprising a channel beam, and a curved guide and reinforcing member carried by said beam, said beam being rigidly secured to the underframing of said car.

6. In a car, corner stakes, each corner stake comprising a'channel beam, a pressed shape alongside and secured to said channel beam, and a curved reinforcing member.

7. In a car, corner stakes, each corner stake having a portion curved in horizontal section immediately above the floor level so as to act as a guide for an unloading plow.

8. In a car, stakes, each stake comprising a channel beam, a reinforcing member secured to said channel beam, and a curved wearing member carried by said channel beam and reinforcing member; I

9. In a car of the class described, a side frame, a buffer plate, a vertically-extending beam secured to said side frame, a curved guide member secured to said beam, and a gusset plate secured to said beam and to said buffer plate.

In testimony whereof, I have subscribed my name.

WIN FIELD I-I. YOS'I.

Witnesses:

GEORGE B. Donny, RODNEY BEDELL.

It is hereby certified that in Letters Patent No. 1,225,302, granted May 8, 1917,

upon the application of Winfield H. Yost, of Montreal, Quebec, Canada, for an improvement in Cal-s," an error appears in the printed specification requiring correction as follows: Page 2, line 39, claim 1, strike out the words and walls and that the said Letters Patent should be read with this correction therein that the same may conform to the record of the case in the Patent Oflice.

Signed and sealed this 17th day of July, A. D., 1917.

F. W. H. CLAY,

Acting Commissioner 01PM.

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